Statistical account of Upper Canada
By: compiled with a view to a grand system of emigration by Robt. Gourlay.
Contributors: Bidwell, Barnabas, 1763-1833.
Publisher: Published by Simpkin & Marshall ...
Published: 1822
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Ontario; Ontario -- Statistics; Ontario -- Economic conditions
Genres: Statistics.
Notes: Engraved title-pages, illustrated.
A third volume was projected by the author but apparently never published. cf. "Explanation of the map": v. 1, p. [i]; v. 2, p. xv.
An introductory volume was published by Gourlay the same year under title: General introduction to Statistical account of Upper Cannada ...
The "Sketches of Upper Canada" in v. 1 are said to have been written, in whole or in part, by Barnabas Bidwell. cf. Edwin M. Bidwell, Genealogy ... of the Bidwell family, 1884, p. 87; Gagnon, Essai de bibl. canad., 1895, no. 1535.
Signatures: v. 1, a⁸, b⁴, B-Z⁸, AA-RR⁸, SS², (-SS₂); v. 2, A⁸, B⁴, B-Z⁸, AA-YY⁸, a-h⁸, i².
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